American By Degrees

Author : Robert J. Young
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773585430

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American By Degrees by Robert J. Young Pdf

The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture. Ambassador Jules Jusserand's years in Washington (1903-24) were defined by efforts to correct such misconceptions, whether they came from the venomous pens of French extremists or from members of William Randolph Hearst's press empire. In An American by Degrees Robert Young explores Ambassador Jusserand's life and legacy. Fluent in English, married to an American, and a historian who was a frequent guest at many American universities, Jusserand deftly cultivated American sympathies for France. His tasks as a diplomat were formidable, whether during the period of America's war-time neutrality - when France was nearly over-run by the German army - or when as allies they competed for control of the peace process or sought to resolve post-war issues like disarmament, war debts, and reparations. Jusserand relentlessly reminded Americans that France had been an ally during their Revolution and that their concept of "civilization" was part of France's intellectual and cultural legacy. His emphasis on their shared history was natural, as befitted the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and only the second foreigner to serve as president of the American Historical Association.

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780465044962

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Degrees of Inequality by Suzanne Mettler Pdf

America’s higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio-economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled. Until the 1970s, the United States had a proud history of promoting higher education for its citizens. The Morrill Act, the G.I. Bill and Pell Grants enabled Americans from across the income spectrum to attend college and the nation led the world in the percentage of young adults with baccalaureate degrees. Yet since 1980, progress has stalled. Young adults from low to middle income families are not much more likely to graduate from college than four decades ago. When less advantaged students do attend, they are largely sequestered into inferior and often profit-driven institutions, from which many emerge without degrees—and shouldering crushing levels of debt. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account, she illuminates how political partisanship has overshadowed America’s commitment to equal access to higher education. As politicians capitulate to corporate interests, owners of for-profit colleges benefit, but for far too many students, higher education leaves them with little besides crippling student loan debt. Meanwhile, the nation’s public universities have shifted the burden of rising costs onto students. In an era when a college degree is more linked than ever before to individual—and societal—well-being, these pressures conspire to make it increasingly difficult for students to stay in school long enough to graduate. By abandoning their commitment to students, politicians are imperiling our highest ideals as a nation. Degrees of Inequality offers an impassioned call to reform a higher education system that has come to exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequality in America.

Author : Ann L. Mullen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801899126

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Degrees of Inequality by Ann L. Mullen Pdf

2011 Educator's Award. Delta Kappa Gamma Society International2011 Outstanding Publication in Postsecondary Education, American Educational Research Association, Division J Degrees of Inequality reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Even as the most prestigious institutions claim to open their doors to students from diverse backgrounds, class disparities remain. Just two miles apart stand two institutions that represent the stark class contrast in American higher education. Yale, an elite Ivy League university, boasts accomplished alumni, including national and world leaders in business and politics. Southern Connecticut State University graduates mostly commuter students seeking credential degrees in fields with good job prospects. Ann L. Mullen interviewed students from both universities and found that their college choices and experiences were strongly linked to social background and gender. Yale students, most having generations of family members with college degrees, are encouraged to approach their college years as an opportunity for intellectual and personal enrichment. Southern students, however, perceive a college degree as a path to a better career, and many work full- or part-time jobs to help fund their education. Moving interviews with 100 students at the two institutions highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequities it has been aiming to transcend.

Author : Walter Crosby Eells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Degrees, Academic
ISBN : OSU:32435020199881

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Baccalaureate Degrees Conferred by American Colleges in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Walter Crosby Eells Pdf

Author : Talented Tenth Scholars
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781105946448

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In Their Own Words: Ten African-American Men With Doctoral Degrees Tell Their Story by Talented Tenth Scholars Pdf

This unique collection of stories details the struggles of ten African-American men in their journeys to obtaining doctoral degrees and success in their career fields.

Author : James Bryce Bryce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547605

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The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce Pdf

Author : Deondra Rose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190650940

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Citizens by Degree by Deondra Rose Pdf

"What explains the progress that American women have made since the 1960s? While many point to the feminist movement, this book argues that higher education policies paved the way for women to surpass men as the recipients of bachelor's degrees and helped them move toward full, first-class citizenship"--

Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Printers
ISBN : 1610753860

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SOME DEGREE OF POWER: Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 (C) by Mark A. Lause Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11799709

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015068375321

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American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Science
ISBN : UCLA:31158007775116

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Scientific American by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore A. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AA0003927084

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Odd Fellowship by Theodore A. Ross Pdf

Author : Brenda Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199944583

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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins by Brenda Stevenson Pdf

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992. An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.

Author : Petra DeWitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822039421136

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Degrees of Allegiance by Petra DeWitt Pdf

Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way that they were affected by national war effort guidelines. Spared from widespread hate crimes, German-Americans in Missouri did not have the same bleak experiences as other German-Americans in the Midwest or across America. But they were still subject to regular charges of disloyalty, sometimes because of conflicts within the German-American community itself. Degrees of Allegiance updates traditional thinking about the German-American experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war’s impact on German-American culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Dentistry
ISBN : UOM:39015055640539

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Dental Advertiser by Anonim Pdf